Raphael Bob-Waksberg Quotes

I'm forever making it out like I have got it all together and I know what I'm doing. The truth is I haven't got a clue what I'm doing.

I'm not confident at all. You just pretend you are.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.

Nobody really knows what they're doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do.

I always felt like a fraud.

I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.

Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

I'm wildly unskilled at what I do. Part of me thinks: 'Why do I think I can pull this off?' but the part of me that has to pay the mortgage thinks: 'Just get on with it!' I'll just keep going until someone discovers I'm no good.

A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.

Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and be working at Dunkin' Donuts.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.

I constantly think I'm a fraud - that this success is not warranted or justified.

I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.

I was always self-conscious about the fact that I didn't have as much comedy experience as other people at 'SNL,' and I kept thinking they were going to realize they'd made a mistake by hiring me.